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The first Indian film to cross ₹100 crore worldwide was the 1975 Bollywood film, Sholay[4][better source needed] directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his father G. P. Sippy.It broke records for continuous showings in many theatres across India, and ran for more than five years at Mumbai's Minerva theatre. By some accounts, Sholay was the highest-grossing Indian film of all time, adjusted for inflation. .The first Indian film to gross over ₹100 crore domestically in India was the Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit starrer Hum Aapke Hain Kaun (1994).[5][6] The 100 Crore Club emerged more than a decade later, when the Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini (2008) became the first Indian film to net over ₹100 crore domestically in asia,[7] soon after which the term "100 Crore Club" was coined.[8] The later Aamir Khan films 3 Idiots (2009), Dhoom 3 (2013), PK (2014) and Dangal (2016) expanded the club to 200, 300, 400, 500crore club, 600 and 700 crore. Overseas, the first Indian film to gross ₹100 crore in international markets was the Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol starrer My Name is Khan (2010),[9] followed by 3 Idiots in 2011.[10][11]

When adjusted for inflation, the first Indian film to gross an adjusted ₹100 crore was the 1940 film Zindagi, directed by P.C. Barua and written by Javed Hussain.[n 1] The first Indian film to gross an adjusted ₹100 crore overseas was the 1951 film Awaara, directed by Raj Kapoor, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and starring Raj Kapoor and Nargis, becoming a blockbuster in the Soviet Union.[n 2]

In their annual awards for the year 2012, Zee Cine Awards added a category "The Power Club Box Office" to recognise directors whose films had reached the 100 crore mark.[12] The 100Crore Club designation has replaced previous Bollywood indications of success which had included great music, the "Silver Jubilee"[13] or the "Diamond Jubilee" (films that ran for 75 weeks in theatres).[14] The concentration on reaching the club has been criticised, with actor and producer Arshad Warsi stating, "I find this whole Rs. 100 crore club very stupid. How can every film releasing lately do a business of Rs. 100 crores all of a sudden? Instead of this, we need to concentrate on making good films."[15]

The Hindustan Times claims that their magazine Brunch coined the term.[16] Initially the term applied only to the lead male actor.[1] Komal Nahta stated that "excluding women from the group is characteristic of an industry which exercises gender discrimination more than other industries."[1] By 2013, the usage had expanded to variously include the film itself, the director,[12] and the lead female actor.[17]

The 100 crore domestic box office became possible in part because of a steady rise in the ticket price, a tripling in the number of theaters and an increase in the number of prints of a film being released.[18] However, DNA reported that "Filmmakers and distributors too are known to leave no stone unturned in their attempt to cross over to the right side" of the 100 crore mark."[12]The Times of India cancelled its "Box Office" column in November 2013 because "The stakes of filmmakers have increased so much that they are willing to go any distance to manipulate and jack up their numbers to beat each other's records." and the Times felt they were no longer able to provide accurate enough figures because "Films that have not reached the '100 crore mark but are close will insist that they have reached the `100 crore figure as they can't resist being in the '100 crore club.'"[19]

Shahid Kapoor called the designation a "fad" which was leading to "massy films which are very basic in their understanding and high on entertainment. But if we run only to achieve those figures then we will restrict ourselves as actors"[2] On the other hand, Dibakar Banerjee, while agreeing with Kapoor about the impact on content stated, "I hope the club stays and grows to many more crores. Films as they do more business boost the confidence of audience and investors alike and everybody benefits."[20]Priyanka Chopra said that being part of films in the 100 Crore Club allowed her to also do less commercial "women oriented films", and lamented that as of December 2013 no woman oriented films had achieved the 100 Crore Club designation.[21]

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Bollywood
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Bollywood is the sobriquet for Indias Hindi language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema, Bollywood is also one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Furthermore, Bollywood is one of the biggest film industries in the world in terms of the number of people employed, according to Matusitz, J. & Payano, P. In 2011, over 3.5 billion tickets were sold across the globe which in comparison is 900,000 tickets more than Hollywood, Bollywood produced 252 films in 2014 out of a total of 1969 films produced in Indian cinema. The name Bollywood is a derived from Bombay, India, and Hollywood, California. Bollywood does not exist as a physical place, some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood. The naming scheme for Bollywood was inspired by Tollywood, the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal and it was this chance juxtaposition of two pairs of rhyming syllables, Holly and Tolly, that led to the portmanteau name Tollywood being coined. However, Tollywood is now used popularly to refer to the Telugu Film Industry in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, the term Bollywood itself has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the worlds largest film producer. Credit for the term has been claimed by different people, including the lyricist, filmmaker and scholar Amit Khanna. Raja Harishchandra, by Dadasaheb Phalke, is known as the first silent feature film made in India, by the 1930s, the industry was producing over 200 films per annum. The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Iranis Alam Ara, was a commercial success. There was clearly a huge market for talkies and musicals, Bollywood, the 1930s and 1940s were tumultuous times, India was buffeted by the Great Depression, World War II, the Indian independence movement, and the violence of the Partition. Most Bollywood films were unabashedly escapist, but there were also a number of filmmakers who tackled tough social issues, in 1937, Ardeshir Irani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya. The next year, he made another film, a version of Mother India. However, colour did not become a feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the fare at the cinema. Following Indias independence, the period from the late 1940s to the 1960s is regarded by historians as the Golden Age of Hindi cinema. Some of the most critically acclaimed Hindi films of all time were produced during this period, examples include the Guru Dutt films Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool and the Raj Kapoor films Awaara, Shree 420 and Dilip Kumars Aan

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Lists of Bollywood films
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This is a list of films produced by Bollywood film industry of Mumbai ordered by year and decade of release. Although Bollywood films are listed under the Hindi language, most are in Hindi with partial Urdu and Punjabi. Hindi films can achieve distribution across at least 22 of India’s 29 states. Speakers of Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi understand the language usage of Bollywood thus extending the viewership to people all over the Indian subcontinent. Here are some examples - Partly English, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Om Shanti Om, Dhoom 2 and No Entry. Partly Urdu, Jodhaa Akbar, Fanaa, Saawariya and Kurbaan, Partly Punjabi, Singh Is Kinng, Jab We Met, Patiala House, Thande Koyle, the film Veer Zaara is an equal mix of Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. Watch in HD with English subtitles Latest Indian Movies Bollywood Movies 2016